Death Penalty Controversy
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - In less than a month, judges in Kentucky and California have barred their respective states from executing inmates because of problems with the way the states put their lethal injection procedures into place.
SAN ANTONIO - The top criminal judge in Texas was spared her job Friday but still punished by a state panel, which reprimanded Sharon Keller for her fumbled handling of a death row inmate's final appeal the night of his 2007 execution.
HOUSTON - A Texas judge has rescinded his highly criticized ruling that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington state has changed its method of execution from a three-drug cocktail to a one-drug system, according to paperwork filed Tuesday with the state Supreme Court.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The man considered the father of lethal injection in the United States said it doesn't matter whether three fatal drugs are used or one - as his home state of Ohio has proposed - as long as the drug works efficiently.
